As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
MOBILE HOME
Any vehicle or structure, including but not limited to an automobile
trailer, mobile home and trailer coach, mounted or capable of being mounted
on wheels for use on highways and streets and designed for use as a dwelling
or for the conduct of a business, trade or occupation.
MOBILE HOME PARK
A "mobile home park" or camp shall consist of two (2) or more mobile
homes or trailers located on one (1) or more lots or plots which shall be
designed to provide the necessary facilities and appurtenances for the mobile
homes to be used as dwellings.
MOBILE HOME SPACE
A lot within a mobile home park designated for the accommodation
of one (1) mobile home.
Provision for additional mobile homes or spaces after initial application approval shall not be allowed unless the park owner files another application according to the procedures enumerated in §
176-2.
The mobile home park shall be subject to site plan review. The plan
shall comply with the minimum requirements set forth in this section.
A. General standards.
(1) Yard requirements. Mobile homes shall be so located that
the following minimum yard requirements for the park shall be maintained:
(a) Front yard: Thirty (30) feet measured from the road right-of-way.
(b) Side yard: Each side, fifteen (15) feet.
(c) Rear yard: Fifteen (15) feet.
(2) Drainage. The park shall be located on a well-drained
site, the grading of which ensures rapid drainage and freedom from stagnant
pools of water.
(3) Size of spaces. Mobile home spaces shall consist of a
minimum of twenty-five hundred (2,500) square feet per unit. Each space shall
be a minimum of forty (40) feet in width.
(4) Width of driveways; access to public street. All mobile
homes spaces shall abut on a driveway of not less than twenty (20) feet in
width which shall have unobstructed access to a public street or highway.
(5) Width of walkways. Walkways not less than two (2) feet
wide shall be provided from the mobile home spaces to the service buildings.
(6) Surfacing lighting of walkways and driveways. All driveways
and walkways within the park shall be hard surfaced and lighted at night with
electric lamps of not less than twenty-five (25) watts each, spaced at intervals
of not more than one hundred (100) feet.
(7) Service buildings required. Each park shall provide service
buildings to house such toilet, bathing and other sanitation facilities as
are hereinafter more particularly prescribed.
(8) Electrical outlets. An electrical outlet supplying at
least one hundred ten (110) volts shall be provided for each mobile home space.
(9) Maintenance of spaces. The mobile home spaces shall at
all times be maintained in a neat and orderly appearance.
(10) Location of homes on spaces. Mobile homes shall be so
located on each space that there shall be at least twelve (12) feet clearance
between them.
(11) Area coverage. The mobile home space area shall not be
covered in excess of fifty percent (50%). The determination of area coverage
shall include the mobile home vehicle and any accessory structure adjacent
to the mobile home.
B. Water supply. An adequate supply of pure water for drinking
and domestic purposes shall be supplied by pipes in all buildings and mobile
home spaces within the park, to meet the requirements of the park. Each mobile
home space shall be provided with a cold water tap at least four (4) inches
above the ground. An adequate supply of hot water shall be provided at all
times in the service buildings for all bathing, washing, cleansing and laundry
facilities.
C. Sanitation facilities.
(1) Toilet facilities for males. Toilet facilities for males
shall consist of not fewer than two (2) flush toilets and two (2) urinals
for the first fifteen (15) dependent mobile homes or any lesser number thereof
and for dependent mobile homes in excess of fifteen (15), not fewer than one
(1) additional flush toilet and one (1) additional urinal for every fifteen
(15) additional dependent mobile homes or fractional number thereof.
(2) Toilet facilities for females. Toilet facilities for
females shall consist of not fewer than two (2) flush toilets or comparable
facilities for the first ten (10) dependent mobile homes or any lesser number
thereof and for dependent mobile homes in excess of ten (10), no fewer than
one (1) additional flush toilet for every ten (10) additional dependent mobile
homes or fractional number thereof.
(3) Lavatory; bath facilities. Each sex shall be provided
with not fewer than one (1) lavatory and one (1) shower or bathtub with individual
dressing accommodations for the first ten (10) dependent mobile homes or any
lesser number thereof and for dependent mobile homes in excess of ten (10),
not fewer than one (1) additional lavatory and one (1) additional shower or
bathtub with individual dressing accommodations for every ten (10) dependent
mobile homes or fractional number thereof.
(4) Sanitation facilities to be private. Each toilet and each shower or bathtub with individual dressing accommodations, for which provision is made in Subsection
C(1),
(2) and
(3) above, shall be in a private compartment or stall.
(5) Separation of facilities for males and females. The toilet
and other sanitation facilities for males and females shall be either in separate
buildings or shall be separated, if in the same building, by a soundproof
wall.
(6) Flush toilet bowl receptacles. There shall be provided
in a separate compartment or stall not fewer than one (1) flush toilet bowl
receptacle for emptying bedpans or other containers of human excrement and
an adequate supply of hot running water for cleansing such bedpans or containers.
D. Laundry facilities.
(1) Laundry trays; washing machines. Not fewer than two (2)
laundry trays and two (2) automatic or semiautomatic-type washing machines
for the first twenty-five (25) mobile home spaces or any lesser number thereof
and, for mobile home spaces in excess of twenty-five (25), not fewer than
one (1) additional single laundry tray and one (1) additional automatic or
semiautomatic-type washing machine for every twenty-five (25) additional mobile
home spaces or fractional number thereof shall be provided.
(2) Electrical outlets for machines; drying space. An ample
number of electrical outlets shall be provided supplying current sufficient
to operate each machine. Drying space shall be provided sufficient to accommodate
the laundry of the mobile home occupants if automatic drying equipment is
not supplied.
(3) Location of facilities. The laundry facilities shall
be either in a separate building or, if in the same building where sanitation
facilities are housed, shall be separated from the rooms housing the sanitation
facilities by a soundproof wall.
E. Service buildings.
(1) To be permanent structures. Service buildings housing
sanitation laundry facilities or any of such facilities shall be permanent
structures complying with all applicable ordinances and statutes regulating
buildings, electrical installation and plumbing and sanitation systems.
(2) Lighting; ventilation; construction materials; temperature
during certain months. The service buildings shall be well-lighted at all
times, day and night; shall be well ventilated with screened openings; shall
be constructed of such moistureproof material, including painted woodwork,
as shall permit repeated cleaning and washing; and shall be maintained at
a temperature of at least sixty degrees Fahrenheit (60º F.) during the
period from October 1 to May 1. The floors of the service buildings shall
be of water impervious material.
(3) Proximity to dependent mobile homes. Service buildings
housing sanitation facilities shall be located not closer than ten (10) feet
or farther than two hundred (200) feet from any mobile home space on which
a dependent mobile home is located.
(4) Maintenance. All service buildings and the grounds of
the park shall be maintained in a clean, sightly condition and kept free of
any condition that will menace the health of any occupant or the public or
constitute a nuisance.
F. Sewage and refuse disposal.
(1) Disposal of sewage. Water from showers, bathtubs, flush
toilets, urinals, lavatories, slop sinks and laundries in service shall be
discharged into a public sewer system or into a private sewer and disposal
plant or septic tank system only after approval by the County Department of
Health.
(2) Use of chemical toilets. If a mobile home is equipped
with a chemical toilet, such facility may be used so long as it does not become
objectionable, at which time its use shall cease and park facilities shall
be used as ordered by the County Department of Health or the enforcement officer.
(3) Yard sanitary sewer for discharge of chemical tanks.
A yard sanitary sewer with capped connection shall be provided for the discharge
of chemical tanks. One (1) such connection, properly vented, shall be provided
for every twenty-five (25) mobile home spaces or any lesser number thereof.
(4) Disposal of garbage, rubbish. Metal garbage cans with
tight-fitting covers shall be provided in quantities adequate to permit disposal
of all garbage and rubbish. Garbage cans shall be located not farther than
two hundred (200) feet from any mobile home space. The cans shall be kept
in a sanitary condition at all times. Garbage and rubbish shall be collected
and disposed of as frequently as may be necessary to ensure that the garbage
cans shall not overflow.
G. Fire protection. Every park shall be equipped at all
times with fire-extinguishing equipment in good working order, of such type,
size and number and so located within the park as to satisfy applicable reasonable
regulations of the Fire Department. No open fires shall be permitted at any
place which may endanger life or property. No fires shall be left unattended
at any time.
The County Health Officer or the enforcement officer shall recommend
to the Village Clerk the revocation of any license to maintain and operate
a mobile home park when the licensee has been found in violation of any provision
of this chapter to which the licensee is subject. After such citation of violation,
the license may be reissued if the circumstances leading to revocation have
been remedied and the park is maintained and operated in full compliance with
the law.